NYU Information Law Institute

At @techpolicypress, @GabeNicholas considers whether Google's FLoC ad privacy solution is a good idea that fell victim to anti-Google public sentiment, or another threat to user privacy and wellbeing sugarcoated in the language of data protection: techpolicy.press/google-privacy…

Congratulation to ILI’s own Katherine Strandburg on being named to EPIC’a advisory board!

Madonna said that we are living in a material world, but what about our digital one? ILI's @salome_viljoen_ thinks somethings wrong with it, and it has to do with how we view datafication. Check out her piece in @logic_magazine logicmag.io/distribution/d…

Check out the latest from ILI's own Kathy Strandburg and @sbenthall on how to incorporate agent-based modeling into legal theory. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

What we’re (always) reading:

Tomorrow at (this year’s last 😭) PRG: @TomerKenneth looks at public officials on social media through the lens of political theory.

How to confront data inequality? My @GuariniGlobal @nyulaw colleague @AngelinaFisherD and I are excited to make our background paper for the @WorldBank's #WDR2021 available via @SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

For effective privacy regulation, the government should take some lessons from enforcement frameworks outside the privacy field, write Katherine Strandburg and Ira Rubinstein of @ILI_NYU in a new paper and @lawfareblog post: ow.ly/kPjk50EjNDe

From @GlobeIdeas: Be wary when Big Tech says it’s defending your privacy, via @GabeNicholas bos.gl/aRKfTd3

Check out the latest from the Kathy Strandburg, @ira_rubinstein, @hoofnagle, and Jim Dempsey on addressing two of the thorniest problems in passing privacy legislation — private right of action and federal preemption. law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/upl…

Today at PRG: @t_streinz on how Facebook's Oversight Board is entangled with national and international law and what that means.

Tomorrow at PRG: @GabeNicholas on why we should see data protection and data sharing as two sides of the same coin.

Feeling too real? Then register to attend The Fake Symposium, a two-day (in-person!) exploration of how the law understands the space between what is real and what is fake. Hosted by the @NYUEngelberg eventbrite.com/e/the-fake-sym…

Tomorrow at PRG: Ira Rubinstein on voter microtargeting and the future of democracy.

What we're bookmarking: @ynotez's big Zotero list of publications on contextual integrity. zotero.org/groups/2228317…

This week at PRG: @StZeitouni on the relationship between privacy and control and how legal scholars have tried (and failed) to disentangle the two.

What we're reading: the latest from senior ILI fellow Ira Rubinstein and @MarguliesPeter on EU data transfer law and surveillance. In @lawfareblog lawfareblog.com/eu-privacy-law…

Tomorrow at PRG: @ngozi_nwanta examines digital identity and financial inclusion through a human rights lens.